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Category: Global warming

Posted on October 7, 2020

Dust aerosol responsible for snowmelt at higher elevation in western Himalayan Region

While black carbon has a large effect on snow darkening and resultant melting of snow, dust particles transported from as far as Saudi Arabia that gets deposited in the Western Himalayan Region has a large role to play in melting of snow, particularly at higher elevations.

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Posted on September 3, 2019

Climate change may reduce banana yield in India

Continued global warming may adversely affect banana yield in India by 2050. With 29% of the world’s production, India is the world’s biggest producer of banana. But the decline in…

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Posted on July 13, 2019

TIFR desalinates seawater without using electricity

TIFR researchers have produced gold nanoparticles that can absorb sunlight over the entire visible region and even the near infrared light. They used such gold nanoparticles to absorb energy from…

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Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

IITM Pune develops model to predict heat waves three weeks in advance

Researchers at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology have developed a model that can predict heat waves three weeks in advance. It can predict the date of onset, duration and…

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Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Bhubaneswar shows how urbanisation can increase local temperature

While Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have become 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation during the period 2001-2010, warming in smaller cities and towns has been relatively less, researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar…

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Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

Recognising Anthropocene as an epoch is a caution to humanity

The overwhelming vote by the Anthropocene Working Group to recognise Anthropocene as a new epoch is a grim reminder to humanity that failure to end destructive activities will irrevocably change…

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Posted on May 29, 2019May 31, 2019

Scientists vote to recognise Anthropocene as a new epoch

A 34-member panel of the Anthropocene Working Group voted to designate Anthropocene as the new geologic epoch. The vote signals the end of the Holocene Epoch which began 11,700 years…

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Posted on May 12, 2019

Cutting down tailpipe emissions with e-vehicles

At nearly 55%, electricity generation in India is primarily through coal. So like in the case of the U.S and China, net reduction in carbon emission will not be much even…

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